Access to Care, Controlling Costs, and the Oregon Health Plan

Controlling the costs of US health care.

With US health expenditure rising past 16% of the country's total economic output—a level almost 50% higher than in any other country—politicians and business executives are scrambling to avoid the bills for America's ragged patchwork of public and private health systems. Opinion polls indicate that health-care bills are now of greater concern to the US public than terrorism, illegal immigratio...

Survey and Analysis of Ardabil City Suburbs Access to the Health Care Delivery Services (Health Centers)

Background & objectives: Health care centers are among the most important and essential centers that proper and timely access to them is one of the basic goals of social justice. The health of the individual and the community depends on the centers that provide primary health care. Rapid, timely, and inexpensive access to these centers is very important and necessary, in any community, especial...

Controlling the costs of the Iranian health system: letter to the editor

Access to substance abuse treatment services under the Oregon Health Plan.

CONTEXT The shift to Medicaid managed care has raised numerous concerns about access to publicly funded substance abuse treatment. The implementation of a capitated chemical dependency benefit within the Oregon Health Plan in 1995 provided an opportunity to study the impact of funding mechanisms on access. OBJECTIVES To determine to what extent access to publicly funded substance abuse treatm...

Controlling Health Care Costs through Commercial Insurance

Commercial insurance companies' have the market incentives and the ability to take on a new role as controllers of rising health care costs. This Note will discuss the market for insurer-directed cost containment, the types of cost control alternatives that could be utilized and the legal restraints on insurer innovation. The analysis of the legal setting for insurer innovation in cost control ...